Hashmot Ali, 45, was left severely disfigured after he was savaged by the animal while out on a boat in the mangrove forests of Bangladesh.
The dad-of-three has lived a life of seclusion since the attack, confining himself to his own village for fear of judgement from outsiders.
But now he will make an eight-hour journey to the country's capital of Dhaka in search of life-changing surgery.
